SJPL Picks: Children's Books featuring Asian/Pacific American VoicesLike this list

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• Ghoul Summer

  Badua, Tracy,

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  12 year-old Barnaby had planned to watch movies and game with his friends all summer. Instead, his parents drag him to the boring beach town of Sunnyside to help his grandpa move. Just when he thinks his summer can't get any worse, a ghost boy named…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Study in Secrets

  Florence, Debbi Michiko,

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  12-year-old Meg Mizuno is pulled into a mysterious treasure hunt at her new boarding school, and must learn to work with her new classmates, who all have secrets of their own.

• The Many Masks of Andy Zhou

  Cheng, Jack,

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  Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family.

• Drawing Deena

  Khan, Hena,

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  When aspiring artist Deena's anxiety reaches a breaking point, both she and her mother learn the importance of asking for help, and that, with the right support, she can create something truly beautiful.

• Rick Kotani's 400 Million Dollar Summer

  Brown, Waka T.,

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  12-year-old Rick Kotani anticipates spending his summer playing baseball with his team, practicing a special pitch he’s sure will land him a 400-million-dollar major-league contract…someday. But instead he ends up traveling with his mom to Oregon to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clairboyance

  Kahakauwila, Kristiana,

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  When she attains the ability to hear what boys are thinking, Clara hopes her newfound powers will reverse her ex-best friend's betrayal but ends up making a mess of everything and must fix her mistakes as she tries to figure out old friendships and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena

  Dao, Julie C.,

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  Competitive siblings Sadie and Clip Chu must set aside their differences and work together when they get stuck in a virtual reality laser tag game.

• The Last Rhee Witch

  Lee-Yun, Jenna,

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  Ronnie and her best friend Jack are headed away to sleepaway camp for the first time ever. Camp Foster promises all of the usual outdoor activities, but it's also crawling with secrets like a mysterious gwishin haunting the grounds, a witch-hunting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Isabel in Bloom

  Respicio, Mae,

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  Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Filipina-American Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.

• Bhai for Now

  Siddiqui, Maleeha,

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  When Ashar and Shaheer meet, they quickly discover they're twins and will stop at nothing to get to know the parent they've been separated from, learning along the way that they may not like each other, but they definitely need each other.

• The First State of Being

  Kelly, Erin Entrada,

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  When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.

• Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All

  Miller, Chanel,

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  Magnolia Wu is a ten-year-old facing a lonely summer in her parents' NYC laundromat. When Iris, a new friend from California, arrives, they set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, asking questions in subways and delis and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Spoonful of Time

  Ahn, Flora,

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  Maya discovers stories and secrets from her family's past in Korea as her grandmother teaches her to cook and about their family's ability to time travel into memories via food.

• The Door Is Open

  Stories of Celebration and Community by 11 Desi Voices

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  Discover interconnected stories of fear, triumph, and spectacular celebration set in the fictional town of Maple Grove, New Jersey, where the local South Asian American kids gather at the community center where they discover new crushes, fight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Two-placed Heart

  a Memoir in Verse

  Nguyen, Doan Phuong,

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  Afraid her and her sister could lose sight of their Vietnamese identity, twelve-year-old Bom writes a poetic memoir to help them both remember. Based on author's life.

• Ruby Lost and Found

  Li, Christina,

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  Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, 13 year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco well. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone - from her best friends to her older sister - is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Through a Clouded Mirror

  Beck, Miya T.,

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  Twelve-year-old Yuki Snow wishes she were anywhere but Santa Dolores, where her mom and stepdad just moved the family. Her BFF back home, Julio, has already forgotten his promise to stay in touch, and the kids at her new school think she's either…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Win a Slime War

  Respicio, Mae,

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  After moving to Sacramento to take over his grandparent's Filipino market, sixth-grader Alex seeks popularity by selling homemade slime at school, while his father insists he join a soccer team.

• Summer at Squee

  Wang, Andrea,

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  A senior camper at Summertime Chinese Culture, Wellness and Enrichment Experience (Squee), Chinese American tween Phoenny Fang finds her summer even more transformative than she could've imagined, with new friendships, her first crush, and a bigger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Takeout

  Badua, Tracy,

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  Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.